Increasingly frequent phone and internet outages plaguing Central Australia's remote Ampilatwatja community leave residents without a way to contact the local health clinic and police in emergencies.
Increasingly frequent phone and internet outages plaguing the remote Central Australian community of Ampilatwatja have left residents without a way to contact the local health clinic and police in emergencies.
Bruce Slonim, a locum doctor at the Ampilatwatja Health Centre, said the community was "desperate" for a permanent solution and better communication from service provider Telstra."It happens so often, it feels hopeless," he said, speaking Monday from the clinic's satellite phone due to an outage that had been ongoing for five days.
But since no-one was able to ring the clinic for an ambulance it took over an hour for the man to receive professional medical attention.